Thankyou everybody for your replies.
A good variety of answers and I will go over them all again and take in what you have written.
I have done a lot of study into the afterlife so I am not denying its existence, it is just that I wonder if the Bible has it right.
So I am 50/50 on this.
Also it will be interesting to see what the Mayan 2012 prophesy will turn out to be.....